€10,000 - “Madness is badness of spirit,
when one seeks profit from all sources” - Aristotle

€1 Million

€1,000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh?

"Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave
them the power to create money and control credit, and
with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back."
-Sir Josiah Stamp, former President, Bank of England

€100 Million

€100,000,000 - Approximately the size of the bonuses that CEO's of big banks during the financial crisis.

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
-James A. Garfield, President of the United States

€2 Billion - A Truck Load Full of Cash

€2,000,000,000 -
Greece's budget deficit is €24,125,000,000. So Greece will need to borrow 12 of these trucks this year full of €100 Euro bills in order not to bankrupt. [Source]

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."
-James Madison

€560,410,000,000 - Greek, Irish, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish governments borrowed little over half a trillion Euros from the banks shown below.
All banks on the list borrowed over €10 billion to GIIPS. Now the banks are worried if they will get it back.

These are only the 13 biggest banks, there are many more that lent money, that together add up to a much bigger debt numbers.

3 pallets of cash would cover the cost of all the trucks shown below, if you bought them new. You'd have enough left over for a lifetime of joy. Each truck has 20 such pallets.

More Infographics

The Illusion of Deposit InsuranceThis article visualizes the illusion of safety.
There is ~370 times more money in deposits at US banks than the size of the Federal Deposit Insurance Fund.
FDIC almost went bankrupt during the 2008/9 crisis.